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Amid the winter chill, the temperature on the streets and on alternative media is rising. The issues of flags, minorities, arrests and an orchestrated assault on a consulate in Tripura, swirl around accusation and counter-accusation. Mamata Banerjee, once a railway minister for the BJP, calls for UN intervention. Bangladeshis try to rally around “national unity”. When will there be a shift from tactical reaction to strategic motion?
The trouble with India
We should respect and learn from the achievements of Deccan, Southern India. However, overall, the giant Indian elephant is weak. Its internal organs are in a state of decay.
It has lost the race with China. The Chinese economy is five times larger, on nominal GDP terms. Remember when Indians were supposed to become a tech superpower, while the Chinese could only “steal, copy and be unable to innovate”. China has left India in the dust. It is a world leader in renewable energy, in New Electric Vehicles, in 5G and 5.5G, in High Speed Rail. In Info-tech, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, it is several levels above India. Eight hundred million people in India depend on free food handouts.